Spinal column: my cookery woes

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Melanie Reid broke her neck and back falling from a horse in April 2010.
She spent 12 months in rehab and is now tetraplegic.

Cooking, for me, is like one of those sadistic Japanese game shows where
everything looks simple but is exquisitely out of reach. Only a fool would
not have resorted to ready-meals long ago.

My kitchen isn’t adapted, so I work at shoulder height, which is a bit like a
normal person cutting a hedge all day – damn hard on the arms. I also have a
mirror on a stick – it’s an NHS device, actually meant for